 | United States National Museum - 1889 - 1242 pages
...down to the river exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw 4 or 5 chaldrons of coals." The Newcastle chaldron weighed 5,936 pounds, so that one horse hauled 8... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse...will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." The fate of many who embarked in mining at that time is strikingly... | |
 | George Brubaker Kulp - Pennsylvania - 1892 - 178 pages
...the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse...will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." * The fate of many who embarked in mining at that time is strikingly... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - England - 1892 - 484 pages
...to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting the rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants."1 The towns of... | |
 | Engineers - 1899 - 206 pages
...straight and parallel rails of timber were laid from the pits to the river for the transit of coal, " whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal, which is an immense benefit to the coal merchant." In all places where the transit was constant... | |
 | John Pendleton - Railroads - 1894 - 612 pages
...the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to coal merchants." The tramroad soon merged into wider... | |
 | 1895 - 980 pages
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit lo the coal merchants." In 1738 cast-iron... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - American essays - 1895 - 204 pages
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse can draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." In the... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - American essays - 1895 - 208 pages
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse can draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." In the... | |
 | Henry Frith - Engineering - 1895 - 406 pages
...by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, . . . whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal." i This was written in 1676. So the "tram" road, whatever its derivation — and writers as well... | |
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The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down... 
